Word: enigma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warm enigma that he would not read...
...great enigma continued to be Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (TIME, July 2). He recently resigned as Nationalist War Minister, but last week some of his well-drilled divisions advanced south against the rebels under the Nationalist banner, while the Marshal with his main army moved north into Shantung; seemingly with intent to vanquish the Marshal Chang Tsung-chang who had just captured Chefoo?where the hair nets come from...
THIS thing called love is an enigma. One reaches a stage at which he thinks he has this delicate subject thoroughly solved and classified in the mind. Suddenly some new experience, some new sensation will present itself and your picture vanishes away in thin air. Such, indeed, is the situation we found ourselves in after trying to absorb the intent of Edna Bryner's recent novel, "While The Bride-Groom Tarried...
Robert Cecil. ". . . his presence was sweet and grave. . . . He was all mild reasonableness-or so it appeared, until he left his chair, stood up, and unexpectedly revealed the stunted discomfort of deformity. Then another impression came upon one-the uneasiness produced by an enigma: what could the combination of that beautifully explicit countenance with that shameful, crooked posture really betoken? He returned to the table, and once more took up his quill; all, once more, was perspicuous serenity...
...spirit that prompts men to go down to the Charles in shells is an enigma to many undergraduates. The rhythmic monotony of a sport in which excellence is attained only after variety has been eliminated is a pleasure only to the initiated. But the large number of college oarsmen testifies to the fact that there is hidden in the chiseled motion of an eight a subtle fascination. The Harvard Athletic Association has always seen to it that facilities are available for everyone who wished to experience the peculiar pleasure of rowing, and today visitors marvel at the great number...